PR #557 now gives the Program a usable communication contract, practical CBI/COMM construction shapes, and a versioned consistency boundary for the T106 successor. This gate asks one question: are those semantics strong enough to close AC010 and let #516 implement the mechanics without another vertical-integration ceremony?
The four conditions discussed with the HDO are implemented in this candidate. Confirm the twelve story outcomes and condition evidence before authorizing merge; the durable platform act remains the gate decision.
The parent Activity asked for a workflow that can receive a request, find the right owner, distinguish in-scope routing from scope-changing absorption, preserve every requested-action leg, and close on durable communication evidence rather than waiting for successor delivery. The package now follows that story end to end.
UID/SID, declared target, carrier, and receipt time.
Informational context is not requested work.
Authority and permitted actions precede mutation.
Six outcomes; edges never substitute.
Mutation, acceptance, lineage, and reconciliation.
Mechanics implement against a versioned contract.
The central boundary: PR #557 closes the T104 semantic package. It does not quietly implement the T106 publication or Program Board lane.
This is the semantic core #516 must preserve. Carrier status, board state, or an awareness edge cannot collapse these outcomes.
Accepted evidence already resolves the action. No receiver changes.
A durable rationale explains why no execution follows.
The receiver already owns the exact outcome. Cite scope; do not edit the receiver.
The receiver is right but its contract changes. Amend it and record its changelog.
One independently reviewable SID-scoped outcome fits one issue/PR path.
Material multi-step work gains an accepted governed successor.
Each card turns an important parent user story into an HDO question. Open its evidence drawer, inspect the artifact or diff, then confirm only if the outcome is understandable and true.
Receipt and visibility must never silently authorize execution.
Candidate answer: yes. The first-read boundary and every construction shape mark communication working/non-authoritative and route decisions to their owners.
The HDO should not decode work from issue numbers.
Candidate answer: yes. Source and receiver UID/SID lead every semantic payload; platform references remain supporting carriers.
A principle without a fill shape is not an operating contract.
Candidate answer: yes. Dedicated copy/fill shapes cover daily CBI, COMM, action legs, all dispositions, day-close, carry-forward, terminal evidence, and local handoffs.
Answer, archive, route, absorb, direct change, and promotion cannot be cosmetic labels.
Candidate answer: yes. Each outcome has a different receiver-mutation and terminal-evidence contract, exercised by fixtures.
The package must prevent “route” from hiding scope change.
Candidate answer: yes. Route forbids receiver mutation; absorption requires amendment plus governed changelog before closure.
Agents cannot settle Program consequences inside a carrier.
Candidate answer: yes. The authority check requires an HDO stop and reconfirmation before governed identity creation, accountability transfer, scope mutation, decision recording, or terminal transition.
Awareness and dependency must not masquerade as disposition.
Candidate answer: yes. Every leg needs its own disposition and evidence; watch, consumer, thematic, awareness-only, and dependency edges remain non-terminal.
The backlog should not stay open for the lifetime of downstream work.
Candidate answer: yes. Terminality attaches to accepted routing, mutation, successor lineage, evidence, and reconciliation—not successor completion.
One daily index must stay synchronized without duplicating authority.
Candidate answer: yes. The thin CBI index, idempotency boundary, day-close reconciliation, parent closure rule, and carry-forward payload are explicit and fillable.
Directory placement cannot imply authority, retention, or acceptance.
Candidate answer: yes. Both channels record direction, counterparty, sensitivity, retention, promotion, and revalidation; actionable cross-owner input receives separate disposition.
Vertical integration should return only when meaning changes.
Candidate answer: yes. Contract version 1.0.0 supports independent T106 mechanics after conformance; semantic divergence fails and routes back to T104/HDO.
Communication should be an entry point, not a competing WDL manual.
Candidate answer: yes. The route matrix covers Plan, Analysis, Proposal, implementation, review, PR, evidence, verification, notes, standards, Program WDL, GitHub publication, PMB projection, and local handoffs.
These conditions capture the improvements agreed in the gate discussion. “Candidate-satisfied” means implemented in the current worktree candidate; HDO confirmation and Consultant replay remain the acceptance acts.
Remove execution contamination; add full vertical routing, incomplete markers, source/projection controls, conflict checks, reading path, and size calibration.
Provide fill shapes and examples for carriers, legs, six dispositions, day-close, carry-forward, terminal evidence, and local channels.
Version the T104→T106 contract, make compatibility observable, let passing T106 mechanics proceed independently, and detect semantic divergence.
Rebuild the prior presentation as a parent-story review, link artifacts/diffs/evidence directly, distinguish merge effects from #516 work, and replay tests/browser QA.
planned. After AC010 closes, the Consultant links the final gate/merge evidence, re-verifies required fields, and activates that lane through the governed status path.Decision prompt: Has PR #557 candidate-satisfied CND-01 through CND-04 and the twelve parent-story outcomes strongly enough to merge, close AC010, and immediately initialize the #516 vertical-integration lane?
Confirm the twelve story cards and condition-verification evidence, then record the durable gate act. The Consultant may merge PR #557, complete AC010 closeout, attach the final evidence to the already-amended #516 PLAN, verify its projection, and initialize the successor lane.
T104-PH001-AC010-GATE001CND-01 through CND-04 · candidate-satisfied; HDO confirmation pendingv2.0.0 · 2026-07-24 · Complete story-led rebuild; replaces the prior claims-matrix presentation.